PACK PLAYS, the American who led December’s US$250,000 Mouttet Mile (Grade 1) for four furlongs, yesterday shot past CALIFORNIA CROWN at the half-mile marker to outsprint rivals in the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission Trophy (Grade 2)...
LINGUIST’S second-place run behind BURNING HEDGE in the 1000 Guineas, handcuffed and boxed in behind horses from post-position two for the first six furlongs, served as confirmation of her preferred running style, which should hand the Aveenu...
VARIABLES ABOUND in Saturday’s Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) feature at five and a half furlongs, an open allowance in which no punter should try playing hero by jumping to a banker on raw form. PACK PLAYS and MAHOGANY, for...
DESERT OF MALIBU’s return to the winners’ enclosure three weeks ago, zipping seven and a half furlongs in 1:32.3, dismissing RUN JULIE RUN by seven lengths, confirmed how devastating the six-year-old American mare can be when let loose on the lead...
FROM HUMBLE beginnings of two gold medals in 2006 — Shawn Cummings in heavyweight continuous-sparring and two-man team-fighting won by Keith Edwards and Jason McKay — Jamaica’s combined martial arts team’s 20th anniversary at the 2026 International...
JAMAICA’s MARTIAL artists closed the 2025 International Sports Karate Association’s United States Open with 28 medals — nine gold, 13 silver and six bronze — at the July 17-19 tournament. Richard Stone led with a double-gold as Jamaica combined...
JASON MCKAY, founder of Jamaica’s combined martial arts team, yesterday said the annual International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, held at the Coronado Springs Resort at Disney World, Orlando, Florida, is the single-biggest...
UNITED STATES-BRED RIDEALLDAYS’ impressive performance, dismissing fellow importees, non-winners of three races, in a decent 1:33.0 for seven and a half furlongs, June 21, signalled a horse going places, worthy of being backed in Saturday’s...
RICHARD STONE, the first fighter to win back-to-back Night of Champions International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) World Championship titles at the International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, returns to the main tournament for...
JAMAICA’s MOST decorated martial artist, 30-year-old Waterhouse native Akino Lindsay, honoured last year in Vienna, Austria, by Europe’s International Sport Kick Boxing Association (ISKA) Amateur Members Association for winning eight individual...
MONEY MARKET, runner-up nine times from 24 starts, four consecutive since April, yesterday won his sixth lifetime race by outbattling stablemate SENSATIONAL MOVE at five furlongs straight, booking a ticket to what is bound to be another spell of...
AFTER EASY pickings in back-to–back races, beating $1.5-million claimers for a combined winning margin of nine lengths, SENSATIONAL MOVE is finally back among his equals, taking a shot at Sunday’s overnight-allowance out the straight course. Though...
LEGACY ISLE’s destruction of CHOCOMO, WALL STREET TRADER, DIGITAL ONE, and MAHOGANY, taking out the quartet in respective races to close consecutive victories on June 21, signals that the Mouttet Mile runner-up is back to his best. Caught at the...
I DREAM AGAIN, a June foal who Derrick Smith gifted himself as an 80th birthday present, yesterday handed the former member of parliament and owner of 2015 Jamaica Derby winner, Seeking My Dream, his “most pleasing classic win”, a length-and-three-...
BURNING HEDGE’s 1000 Guineas performance, a five and three-quarter length win in 1:41.3, booked a classic Battle of the Sexes for Sunday’s Jamaica St Leger at 10 furlongs, tackling colts, SENSATIONAL SOUL and BOB THE BUILDER, who battled out the...
THE JURY is still out on American mare DESERT OF MALIBU’s next-to-last finish, off a five-month lay-up, eased by Omar Walker after playing rabbit for local-bred stablemate ATOMICA, in last month’s Seeking My Dream at seven and a half furlongs....
GIRVANO and IMMEASURABLE JOY yesterday delivered what the form lines predicted, heart-stopping, come-from-behind victories in their respective divisions of the Hubert Bartley Memorial, reminiscent of the finishes the man himself would have conjured...
UNITED States-bred GIRVANO and imported-in-utero IMMEASURABLE JOY could land their respective divisions of Sunday’s seven-furlong Hubert Bartley Memorial at contrasting odds. GIRVANO appears a turnkey winner for division one, making rapid headway...
KHALEESI gets a favourable reduction in journey and a five-pound break at the scale to replicate her Portmore form in Saturday’s fillies-only Good Prospect Trophy at six and a half furlongs. Sent off at 17-1 in the Portmore Guineas prep at seven...
GARY SUBRATIE summoning claiming rider Emelio McLean aboard DIGITAL ONE for Saturday’s SVL 24th Anniversary Trophy could prove a masterstroke for the four-year-old American filly in her expected battle with fellow United States-bred LEGACY ISLE,...
JOHN ISSA created local backgammon history at Jamaica Inn Foundation’s open last weekend, going unbeaten in 15 consecutive games over two nights on the way to becoming the youngest-ever dual champion of the eight-year tournament. Issa, 17, not only...
NATURALISED AMERICAN four-year-old FUNCAANDUN yesterday reminded ATOMICA who’s Horse of the Year, turning tables on the ageing local champion mare with a convincing topweight victory in the Mark My Word Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards. With...
ATOMICA’s BRAVE second behind an unbeatable COMMANDANT in last month’s Seeking My Dream Trophy marked her fifth consecutive run-in with United States-bred runners since turning back fellow local-bred, RUN JULIE RUN, in November’s Jamaica Cup....
FEARLESS FORCE playing second fiddle in the Labour Day Trophy did stablemate MAJOR DANGER no good, a gamble spoiled by INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD, who rallied under strong handling from Reyan Lewis to win by a neck in a driving finish. Delroy Beharie,...
MITTA ROUSSEAU, who rallied from 4-6 down to beat Luke Roberts 9-7 in last year’s thrilling finale of Jamaica Inn Foundation’s seventh annual backgammon tournament, won’t be around to defend his title this weekend but has given his blessings to “...
